Research Article
Virulence Genes of Helicobacter pylori Increase the Risk of Premalignant Gastric Lesions in a Colombian Population
Table 2
Distribution of participants in the study groups.
| | | CNAG† | Atrophy | Metaplasia | Dysplasia | Total |
| | Age | 18–45 years | 119 (63.3) | 13 (21) | 40 (24.4) | 4 (10.5) | 176 (38.9) | | 46–60 years | 58 (30.8) | 30 (48.4) | 78 (47.6) | 13 (34.2) | 179 (39.6) | | ≥61 years | 11 (5.9) | 19 (30.6) | 46 (28) | 21 (55.3) | 97 (21.5) |
| | Sex | Male | 56 (29.8) | 20 (32.3) | 68 (41.5) | 23 (60.5) | 167 (36.9) | | Female | 132 (70.2) | 42 (67.7) | 96 (58.5) | 15 (39.5) | 285 (63.1) |
| | Origin | Urban | 132 (70.2) | 41 (66.1) | 82 (50) | 16 (42.1) | 271 (60) | | Rural | 56 (29.8) | 21 (33.9) | 82 (50) | 22 (57.9) | 181 (40) |
| | Income | <1 CLMMW‡ | 136 (72.3) | 45 (72.6) | 129 (78.7) | 34 (89.5) | 344 (76.1) | | ≥1 CLMMW | 52 (27.7) | 17 (27.4) | 35 (21.3) | 4 (10.5) | 108 (23.9) |
| | Education level | Elementary school | 68 (36.2) | 37 (59.7) | 112 (68.3) | 30 (78.9) | 247 (54.6) | | Middle school | 56 (29.8) | 17 (27.4) | 38 (23.2) | 6 (15.8) | 117 (25.9) | | College/higher education | 64 (34) | 8 (12.9) | 14 (8.5) | 2 (5.3) | 88 (19.5) |
| | Ethnicity | Black | 2 (1.1) | 0 | 2 (1.2) | 0 | 4 (0.9) | | Indigenous | 8 (4.3) | 3 (4.8) | 4 (2.4) | 1 (2.6) | 16 (3.6) | | Caucasian | 1 (0.5) | 0 | 1 (0.6) | 0 | 2 (0.4) | | Mestizo | 177 (94.1) | 59 (95.2) | 157 (95.7) | 37 (97.4) | 430 (95.1) | | Total | 188 (100) | 62 (100) | 164 (100) | 38 (100) | 452 (100) |
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†CNAG: chronic nonatrophic gastritis; ‡CLMMW: current legal minimum monthly legal salary in force wage.
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